David Jaroslawicz
David Jaroslawicz, the principal partner of Jaroslawicz & Jaros, is a member of the New York, Florida and California bar. He has been in practice for over 38 years and has been selected as one of the Top Trial Lawyers in the country by The American trial Lawyers Association.
Mr. Jaroslawicz has handled both trials and appeals and has argued before the United States Supreme Court, the New York State Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Ninth, and Tenth Circuit, as well as the Florida Supreme Court. Mr. Jaroslawicz has represented countless clients involved in commercial litigation; contract disputes; real estate litigation; sexual discrimination and harassment, sexual abuse by priests, medical malpractice; product liability cases such as defective medical products, pharmaceuticals, bicycle or motorcycle helmets, industrial machinery, tires, hospital equipment, and defective automobiles, among others.
His contributions to the practice of law have helped shape New York and New Jersey common law. In fact, Mr. Jaroslawicz was among the legal pioneers who developed the concerted action theory that was utilized against drug manufacturer Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals, who had manufactured and sold DES, a drug that caused cancer in children decades after their mothers had ingested the drugs while pregnant. In addition to his work in the personal injury field, Mr. Jaroslawicz has also handled class-action consumer fraud lawsuits as well as lawsuits on behalf of stock holders who have suffered severe financial losses as a result of securities fraud.
Due to his expertise, Mr. Jaroslawicz had been invited to lecture on numerous occasions on behalf of lawyer groups such as the New York Trial Lawyers Association. Presently, Mr. Jaroslawicz is handling commercial matters on behalf of Tao Restaurant Group, Diamond Court Reporters, Next Modelling Agency, Baytree Capital, and Beatrice Inn.
Email David at:DJ@lawjaros.com.
Abraham Jaros
Abraham Jaros, co-partner of Jaroslawicz & Jaros, is a seasoned and successful trial lawyer who began his career over 34 years ago, aggressively representing the rights of the indigent and poor while working for the New York Legal Aid Society. Mr. Jaros is extremely impassioned in representing the rights of the little guy against well-funded corporations and insurance companies.
He has tried hundreds of cases and won numerous multi-million dollar verdicts on behalf of his clients. Starting as far back as 1984 and 1985, Mr. Jaros won the first $1 million plus verdict in Sullivan County and $2 million verdict in Albany, both in medical malpractice lawsuits. In 1987 he won a $2 million dollar verdict on behalf of a model that had developed acne caused by face cream. During the next decade, Mr. Jaros continued to prosecute cases, securing the highest verdict ever in a Family Medical Leave Act case, and representing clients in cases involving medical malpractice, product liability, Jones Act/Maritime law, Labor law, automobile accidents, disability and life insurance disputes, premise liability, police abuse, foster care abuse, general personal injury matters as well as commercial litigation.
Email Abraham at: AJaros@lawjaros.com.
Natascia Ayers
Natascia Ayers, senior trial attorney for Jaroslawicz & Jaros, is a member of the bars of New York, Florida, Southern and Eastern District of New York, and Southern District of Florida, and is also a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association.
Since Mrs. Ayers began practicing law in 1995, she has secured several million dollar verdicts on behalf of her clients including $3 million in owed benefits on behalf of a paraplegic. She speaks Italian, French and understands Spanish. Mrs. Ayers is notable for keeping very close contact with her clients and handling many personal matters for them on a pro bono basis.
At present, Mrs. Ayers is concentrating her practice on medical malpractice, handling such cases as: brain damage sustained by babies during childbirth; Transfusion Related Lung Injuries; failure to diagnose cancer; improperly performed gastric bypass surgery leading to death; severe bed sores as a result of improper care by a nursing home or health aide; and emergency room negligence including failing to properly diagnose and treat critical medical conditions such as necrotizing fascitis, appendicitis, heart attack, and meningitis. In addition, Mrs. Ayers handles real estate matters, transactional and litigation, and further represents construction workers who have suffered serious injuries while on the job, which often requires the litigation of complex legal issues regarding safety devices under the New York Labor Laws.
Email Natascia at: NAyers@lawjaros.com.
Elizabeth Eilender
Elizabeth Eilender, (Of Counsel), one of the firm's senior trial attorneys, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and New York Law School and has been practicing law since 1992. She is a member of the state bars of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and the federal courts of the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey. Her diverse litigation practice has included representing well-known companies and high profile individuals in commercial disputes, breach of contract cases, defamation, medical mal-practice and discrimination matters.
Ms. Eilender litigated the first sexual harassment case in New York which determined that the Commodities Exchange was a place of public accommodation and therefore the New York Human Rights Law protected exchange members. She has successfully litigated denials of claims for life insurance and disability benefits against such insurance companies as UNUM Provident, Hartford and Metropolitan Life. Ms. Eilender is perhaps best known for having represented families who have suffered devastating property and real estate losses and illnesses from water and mold damage to their homes and offices. In the early '90s, as an associate for the firm, Ms.Eilender litigated one of the first toxic mold cases in the state of New York.
Due to her long-standing expertise and success in this field, she was requested to lecture at the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education regarding legal and technical aspects of prosecuting mold cases and was recently quoted in the Wall Street Journal.
Email Elizabeth at: EEilender@lawjaros.com.
David Fischman
David Fischman has recently joined Jaroslawicz & Jaros as a senior trial attorney. David has been practicing law in New York for over 25 years. He is a graduate of Colgate University and Albany Law School. Mr. Fischman is admitted to practice in the courts of the State of New York, as well as the Federal Courts in the Southern District and Eastern District of New York.
Mr. Fischman is a seasoned trial attorney, who began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx. Over the course of his legal career, Mr. Fischman has achieved outstanding results on behalf of his clients in a wide variety of legal matters. Notably, Mr. Fischman is concentrating in the areas of medical malpractice and personal injury where he has obtained numerous million dollar verdicts in a wide range of challenging cases. Mr. Fischman has successfully prosecuted medical malpractice cases involving birth injuries, surgical errors, dental malpractice, podiatric malpractice and hospital negligence.
As a native New Yorker, Mr. Fischman provides his clients with a keen ability to analyze their cases and a unique recognition of effective, winning strategies.
Email David at: DFischman@lawjaros.com.
Norman Frowley
Norman Frowley, a senior trial attorney for Jaroslawicz & Jaros, has been both an aggressive trial advocate for injured clients and an accomplished appellate attorney arguing cases before the New York State and federal appellate courts for close to 40 years. Mr. Frowley has won multiple million dollar awards in negligence, labor law, automobile and medical malpractice cases. He has argued and won a virtual catalogue of appellate cases, some of which have set precedents and changed the course of New York jurisprudence in favor of persons injured by neglect.
He is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School where he was a member of the Law Review. Early in his career he was an assistant district attorney in the Bronx under District Attorneys Burton Roberts and Mario Merola, trying felony cases, investigating homicides, conducting a statewide inquiry into the care of the mentally ill, and handling major appeals.
He is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, the States of New York and New Jersey, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
He has been a lecturer for the New York State Trial lawyers Association and is a member of the faculty of the continuing legal education staff of Lawline, having lectured on slip, trip and fall accidents and the pitfalls in handling such cases. He has served as a member of the New York County Lawyers Association Appellate Advocacy Committee, and the New York City Bar Association’s Aviation Law Committee. He has authored a number of articles including “Foreseeability: No One Free Crime,” 23 NYS Trial Lawyers Quarterly 22 (1993); “Ventura v. Consolidated Edison Co. Inc.,: Wife After Death,” 13 NYS Trial lawyers Quarterly 104 (1979). He is a member of the New York City and New York State Trial Lawyers Associations.
He has been named a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and has recently been named a New York Super Lawyer.
Email Norman at: NFrowley@lawjaros.com.
Michelle Holman
Michelle Holman, an associate of the firm, is a 2007 graduate of Cardozo Law School and is admitted to practice in New York State and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Prior to attending law school Ms. Holman worked in the financial services industry and held several securities licenses, including Registered Representative (Series 7) and Registered Principal (Series 24). While at Cardozo she worked on the Securities Arbitration Clinic representing individual investors in actions against broker-dealers, as well as doing financial enforcement work at the NASD (now FINRA) and the Bureau of Securities of the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office. Presently Ms. Holman’s practice includes a wide variety of cases, including premises liability, property damage and personal injury actions.
Email Michelle at: MHolman@lawjaros.com.
Stephen Jacobson
Stephen Jacobson is a graduate of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and is admitted to the practice of Law in New York State and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He is a member of The New York State Trial Lawyers Association and has been practicing law since 1996.
Mr. Jacobson has obtained multiple verdicts and settlements in cases involving medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, Jones Act/Maritime Law, premises liability and motor vehicle accidents in venues throughout New York State including a $1.5 million dollar verdict in the Federal Court, Eastern District of New York on behalf of a seaman who was injured when he fell from an unsecured ladder between a moving barge and tug boat and a $500,000 verdict on behalf of a young woman who sustained neck and back injuries as a result of a motor vehicle accident.
Email Stephen at: SJacobson@lawjaros.com.
Roger Lavinsky
Roger Lavinsky, a senior associate of the firm, has been practicing personal injury law for 25 years, with a focus on construction accidents, products liability, elevator and escalator accidents, motor vehicle, premises and general negligence cases. Over his years of practice, Mr. Lavinsky has successfully resolved hundreds of cases and has secured numerous six and seven figure settlements for his clients. He has also successfully represented many clients involved in catastrophic injury cases, including a highway design case in the Court of Claims which resulted in a twelve (12) million dollar judgment against the State of New York.
Mr. Lavinsky is a graduate, with honors, from the State University of New York at Binghamton and New York University School of Law. He is a member of the bar of the State of New York as well as the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Email Roger at: RLavinsky@lawjaros.com.
Robert Summer
Robert Summer has recently joined Jaroslawicz & Jaros as an associate. He has been practicing personal injury law for the last 17 years and prior to that, worked as a criminal prosecutor in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. Rob has been representing injured persons in various legal matters with many successful settlements and verdicts, securing millions of dollars for clients. Recognizing that an injury affects not just the person injured but their entire family, Rob brings an in-depth, detail-oriented approach along with critical thinking, an unwavering work ethic and firm integrity to representing each client injured due to medical malpractice, construction accidents, motor vehicle accidents, premises accidents, elevator and escalator accidents and product liability cases.
Rob graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton and St. John’s University School of Law and is admitted to practice law in New York State and the federal courts of the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Bronx County Bar Association where he has held various leadership positions.
Email Robert at: RSummer@lawjaros.com.
David Tolchin
David Tolchin, a senior associate of the firm, is a 1998 graduate of Brooklyn Law School admitted to practice in the courts throughout New York State and in the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
An experienced litigator and appellate counsel, Mr. Tolchin has argued motions and appeals at both the trial court level and in the Appellate Divisions of the New York Supreme Court in such diverse areas as medical malpractice, Labor Law, breach of contract, and automobile liability. As a litigator, Mr. Tolchin handles myriad cases in federal and state court, including 911 litigation, Warsaw Convention airplane accidents, unpaid overtime and wage claims, sexual discrimination in the workplace, Labor Law construction work accidents, medical malpractice, products liability, and pedestrian and automobile injuries. Se habla español.
Email David at:DTolchin@lawjaros.com.
If you or a loved one is in need of legal assistance, call Jaroslawicz & Jaros at 212-227-2780, toll free at 1-800-269-2780, or submit an online questionnaire. The initial consultation is free of charge, and if we agree to handle your case, we will work on a contingency fee basis, which means we get paid for our services only if there is a monetary recovery of funds. In many cases, a lawsuit must be filed before an applicable expiration date, known as a statute of limitations. Please call right away to ensure that you do not waive your right to possible compensation.